...Downer can be petty and puerile. He plays a mean-spirited, personal, scratchy game of partisan politics. He can be breathtakingly immature. Read more »
...Downer can be petty and puerile. He plays a mean-spirited, personal, scratchy game of partisan politics. He can be breathtakingly immature. Read more »
It's just one poll, if the next couple of polls show the same thing, then I think obviously I think it starts to get significant.
T Abbott 17 June 2008
It has been surprising how little attention was given to Abbott’s response to yet another poll showing the end-of-the-honeymoon-that-never-came. It is significant. Firstly because although it has been said to put Nelson under notice in the future, it has actually damaged him right now as it undermines one key thing that leaders need to be seen to have – control over their destiny.
Read more »Wilson Tuckey thinks that Rudd's walk out of the Chamber ahead of the vote on Belinda Neal represented a lack of confidence in her. Well, duh! Read more »
Nelson's Liberals Are The Spinal Tap Of Australian Politics
Shock : Real Questions On Real Issues From The Opposition
While opposition leader Brendan Nelson was trying to rally the weight of the Rudd government to save a rural post office yesterday, opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull set about finally dismantling some of the whirling flurry of Rudd rhetoric : Read more »
Climate change is the biggest economic challenge that the global community faces.
K Rudd Parliament 24 JuneClimate change is the biggest economic challenge the global community faces.
W Swan Parliament 25 JuneI note that there will be a fall off of jobs in the old polluting industries. But, you know, aren't workers going to be better off? Isn't their health going to be better? Isn't their spirit going to be better?
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If the Liberal party is a car suspended momentarily up a cliff, there are signs that it is starting to move – and the direction is not up. The first sign is the serious mis-step they have just made on petrol prices.
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Have you ever felt guilty about receiving a gift?
Thanks to the Budget, from July many of us are about to be suddenly free of the Medicare Levy Surcharge.
The gift will be worth $500 a year to someone earning $50,000; $700 a year to someone earning $70,000; and so on.
At the moment the levy is charged to anyone earning more than $50,000 and to most people in couples that have a combined
“An idea so ridiculous, so unworthy of the people aspiring to lead our nation, it takes your breath away.”
Not long ago Australia's Liberal Party stood for prudent economic management and the freedom of the individual.
Today it stands for cheaper petrol.
Its leader Brendan Nelson has been saying so continuously.
“We stand for lower petrol prices”, “five cents a litre off petrol is what we
A strangely unsettled mood seems to have settled over national politics in the last week. Debate over the Budget is still rattling around but with no coherent theme having emerged from either side while the media keep worrying over it like a dog with a bone.
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